MONUSCO by the numbers

Written by defenceWeb/UN, Friday, 04 September 2015

MONUSCO, the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the big peacekeeping and peace support operations run by the world body and it’s close to 20,000 military personnel come from 49 countries.

It is one of two current peace support deployments the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has been committed to, the other being in Sudan where South African uniformed personnel are part of a joint AU/UN mission.

Latest statistics show MONUSCO has 19,784 uniformed personnel, comprising 18,232 military, 1,090 police and 462 military observers. Other personnel numbers for the mission include 2,725 local civilians, 840 civilians from other countries and 450 UN volunteers.